Thursday, February 28, 2013

Vint Cerf envisions an interspecies internet for communicating with animals and aliens

Vint Cerf TED 2013

In a TED talk this evening, internet pioneer Vint Cerf took the stage to describe how the internet will eventually allow us to communicate with other species — even ones from another planet. The comments came as part of a group presentation, featuring the likes of musician Peter Gabriel and physicist Neil Gershenfeld, that focused on how technology is being used to communicate with animals. Cerf said that when he was designing the framework for what eventually became the internet, he realized that it was not simply a way for machines to connect — it was a way for people to interact. However, that's essentially just a starting point.


"All kinds of possible sentient beings may be interconnected."


"Now what's important about what...


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